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Thursday, December 17, 2015

If You Find Yourself in an Immigration Hole, Stop Digging - Brian Joondeph

by Brian Joondeph

A pause in Muslim immigration is not about
religious freedom and the First Amendment, but instead about opening our
doors to people who are hostile to our American culture.

This old saw is called the “Law of holes.”
Meaning if you find yourself in an uns[us]tainable position, change course
rather than pushing on and making the situation worse. At first glance,
this advice could be directed toward Donald Trump. Each week he says
something more outrageous than the week before, creating dyspepsia
within the ranks of the media, the left, and the Republican
establishment. Shouldn’t he change course with his bombastic comments
and moderate his position to that of a more electable candidate, say Jeb Bush?

Yet Trump continues to rise in the polls,
even after his latest outrageous comments about Muslim immigration. The
“law of holes” I refer to is not about Donald Trump, but instead about
Barack Obama and his approach to immigration and radical Islam.

The
hole the president is in refers to his failed and misguided approach to
immigration and the threat of radical Islam. As the San Bernardino
shootings clearly illustrate, his policy is failing. Rather than
changing course, he doubles down, pushing more of the same, expecting a
different outcome. Which, by the way, was Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity.

A failure of intelligence contributed to the San Bernardino shootings. The husband and wife terror team were radicalized before they met in 2013. They planned a terror attack
as far back as 2012. They traveled unhindered to and from Saudi Arabia.
They had access to weapons and cash. And they likely had assistance in
planning and carrying out their shooting. Yet political correctness and
Muslim sensitivity hijacked federal investigations that might have thwarted the attacks. This is one hole.

The
other hole Obama sits in is his foolish immigration policy, as Trump
and some of other Republican candidates have pointed out. A pause in
Muslim immigration is exactly what’s needed -- stop digging. Our
policies are obviously not working, with bride visas, refugee influx, or
vetting. All Trump is saying is that we need to stop digging until we
as a country figure out a more sensible immigration approach.

A
pause in Muslim immigration is not about religious freedom and the
First Amendment, but instead about opening our doors to people who are
hostile to our American culture and want to change it. There is no
constitutional right to immigrate to America. The real problem is Sharia,
which is not a religion but instead is a legal and political system
dictating all aspects of one’s public and private behavior. And those
Muslim immigrants Trump is referring to? According to Pew Research, these immigrants are coming from countries where anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of Muslims believe in Sharia.

So what’s so bad about Sharia? Is it just another religious or lifestyle choice? Not quite. Under Sharia nonbelievers have a choice.
“Convert, subjugate or die.” The San Bernardino couple recommended the
final option. Is it wise to bring immigrants to America who subscribe to
Sharia?

We are told that most Muslims are nonviolent. What does Pew Research say? 81 percent of U.S. Muslims believe,
“Suicide bombing is never justified.” That’s a relief. Or is it? Flip
it around and realize that 19 percent, or 1 in 5 believe suicide bombing
is justified at certain times under certain circumstances. Not very
comforting.

John Kerry tells us we will be accepting 100,000 Syrian refugees
a year. Will all of these refugees be from Syria? Probably not, but
instead from a collection of countries where the majority support
sharia. Of the young Muslims in Europe, 20-40 percent, depending on
country, believe suicide bombing
may be justified. If even 1 percent of the Syrian refugees to the U.S.
take their beliefs to fruition, that’s a thousand potential suicide
bombers per year. San Bernardino was only two. Multiply that carnage by
500 and that’s what the administration may be welcoming to the U.S.

This
is the hole we are in. Bringing in people with views contradictory to
those of Americans, with no effective way of vetting them. Even FBI
director James Comey acknowledges
our inability to vet those arriving or already in the U.S. Yet the
administration keeps digging, telling us that everything is fine,
nothing to worry about, their processes are working.

Donald
Trump is telling America the opposite, that the status quo is not
working and instead is bringing harm to our shores. His rise in the
polls after his recent comments indicate that many Americans also
believe we are in a hole and the prudent course is to pause until we as a
country figure this out.

The elites
are in a lather over Trump’s remarks. Those in the heartland know
otherwise, that America is in a hole over an out-of-control immigration
policy. And that Trump is one of few that understand the first step is
to stop digging.

Brian C. Joondeph, MD, MPS, a Denver based retina surgeon and writer. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter. Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/if_you_find_yourself_in_an_immigration_hole_stop_digging.html Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.